To retire is to begin to die.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

To retire is to begin to die.

Music will save the world.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

To retire is to die.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

The Cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time more slender more supple more graceful.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Even miracles take a little time.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes.

I've said a lot of things: I've said I'm never going to date someone in the business and that I'm never going to date someone outside the business.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'